Mutt

[Black Pearl]

If you knock on that there head you'll find it is completely empty...

[ChrisLumix]

I resemble that remark!

[Black Pearl]

He's the best behaved, kindest natured dog I've ever owned but utterly thick.

[Clicker]

What an adorable expression .... And a priceless capture ... I think I'm smitten !!! 

What is his name ...  ? Can I take  'im 'ome wimme?  

[Black Pearl]

What an adorable expression .... And a priceless capture ... I think I'm smitten !!! 

What is his name ...  ? Can I take  'im 'ome wimme?  

That's Jasper and just make me an offer 

[Clicker]

That's Jasper and just make me an offer 

I can see the kids letting you do THAT .......I don't think....

 He looks an absolutely treasure ......his expression just oozes trust and loyalty .....I expect it's lovingly  returned ... despite your protestations BP

[NannyFerret]

How can you say that, BP? I bet he has a wealth of information in his little head, and I can see a knowing look in his eyes.

A lovely shot.

[FUJI]

Faithful and all that.......until he rolls in a dead hedgehog or worse  

 

FUJI

[Black Pearl]

Don't get me wrong he's great dog, amazing with the boys who adore him and he's a rescue dog from a local kennels (he was abandoned, left chained to a fence) so I feel we have given him a better life than he potentially had - but - he is thick. 

Every dog I've had (always owned a dog and my parents always had a dog when I was growing up) has learned who the people in the house were so if you said "Go see Dylan" the dog would go to Dylan. If you said "Where's your mam?" the dog would go looking for her (not really their mam but you know how it is with pets) but even after five years with Jasper he can't 'get' the people he lives with. The four of us have stood in a field, one has shouted for him while the rest say "Go to xxx" countless times and it won't sink in. We've sat in the house getting him to go between or just concentrated on one person but nothing...not a single spark of recognition to names. To be fair our previous dogs have either been Boarder Collies or we had a Lab once so they are known as being intelligent but there's collie in Jasper so there has to be something inside that has an IQ that starts without a decimal point.

 

Anyhoo - he does make a good photo subject 

[FUJI]

Oh! My Giddy Aunt BP,  your description of Jasper could be of me too.......I have, for ever, been unable to recall faces seen quite regularly, but I KNOW who they are......not an age thing, but a personality trait......Jasper, like me, has an Artistic/Creative/Lateral Thinking mind........far too busy for bothering who and what things are  

I'm a lovable, once neglected soul too .....

FUJI

[Clicker]

Now you come to mention it Fooj ........there is a resemblance....the untamed mane and a faraway look 

[NannyFerret]

Oh! My Giddy Aunt BP,  your description of Jasper could be of me too.......I have, for ever, been unable to recall faces seen quite regularly, but I KNOW who they are......not an age thing, but a personality trait......Jasper, like me, has an Artistic/Creative/Lateral Thinking mind........far too busy for bothering who and what things are  

I'm a lovable, once neglected soul too .....

FUJI

Make that two of us.

[ChrisLumix]

Maybe he's just deaf ... ?

[Black Pearl]

Maybe he's just deaf ... ?

His hearing is superb, he can hear you picking his lead up from anywhere in the house, knows the sounds my hiking boots make compared to me putting on work shoes and a simple whistle will have him back to my side as fast as he can run from him being a dot in the distance. He will sit, lie down, heel, give a paw, stay (unless very excited) do all the usual dog obedience stuff he just doesn't remember peoples names or the name of objects.

[Clicker]

 

 

His hearing is superb, he can hear you picking his lead up from anywhere in the house, knows the sounds my hiking boots make compared to me putting on work shoes and a simple whistle will have him back to my side as fast as he can run from him being a dot in the distance. He will sit, lie down, heel, give a paw, stay (unless very excited) do all the usual dog obedience stuff he just doesn't remember peoples names or the name of objects.

Hey... nobody's perfect .... that list  looks like a lorra positives    ... ooooh you are a hard taskmaster you ....

[ChrisLumix]

His hearing is superb, he can hear you picking his lead up from anywhere in the house, knows the sounds my hiking boots make compared to me putting on work shoes and a simple whistle will have him back to my side as fast as he can run from him being a dot in the distance. He will sit, lie down, heel, give a paw, stay (unless very excited) do all the usual dog obedience stuff he just doesn't remember peoples names or the name of objects.

Hey, I have a university degree but do you think I can remember people's names? 

[Clicker]

Ah but do you stay when commanded and can you balance a biscuit on your nose.... ? 

[ChrisLumix]

Ah but do you stay when commanded and can you balance a biscuit on your nose.... ? 

If it was a fig roll or a dark chocolate ginger ... 

[Clicker]